Mexico protesters torch ruling party regional HQ

Protesters angry at the alleged massacre of 43 Mexican students torched the ruling party’s regional headquarters in Guerrero state Monday in another demonstration over a case rocking President Enrique Pena Nieto’s government. Riot police clashed with protesters in running street battles as black smoke billowed from the white two-story building of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the southern state’s capital, Chilpancingo. “Some 400 people seized the PRI building and some workers, whom they later freed,” the party’s state president, Cuauhtemoc Salgado, told Milenio television. The office had undergone renovations after it was torched last year by protesters angry at a controversial education reform.